That's Jack for ya....

Jack's first full day of school was last Friday so I packed him a lunch and off he went. When the kids got home from school that afternoon Adam asked me why Jack was eating "hot lunch" (cafeteria food) at school. I was like, huh!? So I asked Jack why he ate pizza at school instead of the lunch I so lovingly made him earlier that morning and he made one of his usual Jack faces....total confusion washed over his face as he pondered my question. We stood staring at eat other in total silence as I waited for him to respond. "I didn't find a lunchbox", he finally said. So I took him over to his backpack and showed him his uneaten lunch right their tucked neatly into his backpack, right where I put it that morning and in plain sight. I mean, it was the first thing you see when you open his backpack and I know he opened his backpack because he had to get his folder out to hand in to his teacher. So I asked him again why he didn't eat his lunch and how he'd gotten a free hot lunch from school. Of course his response was total silence followed by mass confusion. He was lost in his thoughts, he didn't know how to answer me. I ended up calling his teacher to explain to her that I was a good mother and that I had indeed packed him a lunch. I didn't want her to think I had forgotten my son's lunch and expected the school to let him slide with a free hot lunch. So she told me how she has asked all the kids with cold lunches to get their lunch boxes out and in the basket ready for lunch time. That is when it hit me, she said lunch boxes. Of course, it made perfect sense, Jack thinks in the most literal sense you can imagine so he was looking for a lunch BOX and I had packed his lunch in a brown paper bag, not a box. He gets so confused if the slightest details don't match up in his head. I explained this to his teacher and we had a good laugh about it. She said, "Most kindergarteners think like that", and I agreed only silently I was thinking, "Lady, you have no idea, Jack's mind blows my mind and it will most likely blow your mind as well." We both made mental notes that I need to remind Jack that his lunch is in a bag, and she will remind him to take out his lunch bag not lunch box.

I love Jack!